its out there for sure i have seen them 1st hand.
many times a customer will bring a chinese import for US to knockoff haha only because they can't get it anymore.
no because there isnt a tube that is started from just a tube and finished into a piece all in 1 shot
it takes at least 3 different steps and usually done by 3 diff people @ diff stations
certainly looks clean, just missing minor details like bridged stem but it looks pretty short so it prolly wont matter
Chinese blowers are getting better and better.
If you are going to buy an import - it makes sense to just import it yourself w/ vendors like AliEx
this reminds me of a piece that of my distributors has been bugging me to make.
2 chambers one for flower and 1 for oil - he wants to call it hit it twice hahaa kinda like a recycler design but w/ 2 joints for diff material
popped hole downstems and 6 arm tree chamber stems
we were going to do a line of stems - showerheads / honeycomb / ratchet stems but other things came up
we did make a custom tube for a shop in colorado but it didn't look right
it was a 9mm beaker w/ a dewar joint
we were going for that HVY mini beaker look where they use a grinder to drill their own joint fitting ( we can't do that ) so we tried another approach.
another way is just go fixed...
That may be true, but honestly i've had plenty of business referred by other blowers as well - this community is still pretty small and everyone knows everyone
besides most of my "target customers" own more than 1 piece so i'm not worried that they won't comeback. its better for the customer...
This isn't true for glass anyways...
I've seens half a dozen prodo shops overseas.
.. no kids..
Having said that .. some chinese men and women look like kids even in thier 20s and 30s
yep the 1st few we make as a prototype, all the slits didnt fire. so we had to put a downstem inside (thats what is being done in that pic on the torch) the end result is all slits fire ( or why even have them right? )
but sadly this one thing takes a few extra steps which will add to the...